The patented Airisana Therapeutic Support Surface from Encompass affirms the years of effort devoted to this game-changing product.
“Encompass understands everyday care and the Arisana system gives health care providers the opportunity to reduce patient pressure injury risks, reduce patient repositioning injuries among staff, and improve clinical efficiencies,” said Michelle Daniels, Encompass Group vice president of product strategy, development and administration. “We’re delighted by how well Airisana has been received by the nursing community.”
Each Airisana system comes with an intuitive, soft-touch user control panel that’s quiet enough to ensure a comfortable healing environment and keeps control in the care provider’s hands. The repeating pressure therapy patterns employed by traditional therapeutic support surfaces increase the chances that a patient’s body will adjust to the process, which can impede healing. Airisana reduces this risk with randomized pressure therapy modes that promote sustained pressure reduction and combine the benefits of multiple pressure therapies into a constantly changing surface a patient’s body doesn’t get used to. Airisana conforms evenly to irregularities such as body contours. This puts the greatest amount of contact between skin and surface and ensures decreased pressure without interfering with patient mobility. With turn-assist reducing friction and shear risk, and reducing caregiver injury, nurses and clinicians can now easily reposition patients as needed.
Daniels concludes, “While many hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) have decreased, pressure injuries remain a stubborn exception. Contributing factors such as increased acuities, decompensation, increased use of medical devices, and patient adaptation all play a role. Airisana puts an important new tool in the caregiver’s toolbox. Combined with the benefits of its revolutionary design and easy implementation, it helps nurses, clinicians and their institutions battle pressure injuries. Plus, Arisana meets the Encompass mission for patient safety and comfort. We look forward to announcing additional patents for this outstanding product soon.”
More information is available at www.encompassgroup.com/airisana-reducing-pressure-injuries
